Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 2009 January 14 11:18:31 Kent West wrote:It used to be that the kernels were named something like "kernel-image-2.6.24...".In Sarge and before, IIRC.Four questions: 1. Why the change from "kernel-image..." to "linux-image..."?While Linux is a kernel, not all kernels are Linux. In particular there are unfinished ports of Debian to kFreeBSD and GNU HURD, they would provide a package named like freebsd-kernel-image... or hurd-image...
Ah, that makes sense! Thanks!
2. What is "-xen" and "-vserver" and what happened to just plain "-686" with the 2.6.18 and 2.6.24 kernels?-xen kernels have support for running as a dom0 under the Xen hypervisor.-vserver kernels are similar for VServer technology, but I'm not familiar with it.What do you mean "What happened"? Based on your listing there is a -686 for each kernel version that has a -xen (e.g.).
I just missed the one for the 2.6.18, and I couldn't see the one for the 2.6.24, because that column got chopped off. I later discovered that's caused by grep.
3. How can I tell my aptitude-search command to list wider columns to see the entire name.IIRC, pipe it to cat; when stdout isn't a terminal it ignores the COLUMNS environment variable.
Just leaving the grep portion out solved my problem, although I suspect I could feed some parameters to grep to widen the column.
4. What's the difference between, say, "linux-image-2.6" and "linux-image-2.6-686" and "linux-image-2.6.18-6-686"?linux-image-2.6 is an empty package that depends on "the latest" linux-image-2.6.*-* package. linux-image-2.6-686 is similar but requires a *-686 package. linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 package contains version 2.6.18 of the Linux kernel, Debian revision 6, compiled for 686 and better processors.
Okay; that's beginning to gel in my brain. Thanks for the help! -- Kent West <*)))><http://kentwest.blogspot.com